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8.12.2008:Robots for Education and Entertainment
Sara Schütz
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Table of Contents●What means „Robot for Education&Entertainment“?
●Educational Robots: The Telebots Project -Introduction -How it works
●Entertainment Robots: Examples -Tiger Electronics/Hasbro -Sony -WowWee
●Edutainment Robots: LEGO Mindstorms -History -How it works
●For further information...
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What means a „Robot for Education and Entertainment“?
It is a robot designed for educational or entertainment purposes.●Educational purpose means: teach how to program a robot.
●Entertainment purpose means: not designed for utilitarian use.
In some cases, these two purposes are combined
Edutainment Robots
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The Telebots-Project (TAMS-Group)● Educational robot system which was designed for teaching students how to build and program a robot
●Based on LEGO bricks
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The Telebot-System -How does it work?
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Entertainment Robots
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Tiger Electronics/Hasbro (US)-TE was founded in 1978 by Randy Rissman&Roger Shiffman-bought by toy production company Hasbro in 1998-most famous robotic products:
The I-Dog SeriesFurby Furreal Friends
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Furby●First public appearance at the International ToyFair in 1998
●Communicates via infrared●Cams&gears move mouth,ears●Speaks its own language,is able to learn the national language
●Reacts to several pre-programmed sentences●Reacts to light
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Furby´s sensors
Back sensorBeak sensor
Microphone Tummy sensor Tilting sensor
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The i-Dog●Reacts to music from an external source●„dances“ to the beat of the music●Has several buttons to allow interaction with the user●Shows various „emotions“ by varying light patterns●There are several different shapes of the conceptsuch as i-Cat,i-Cy(Penguin shaped),Spi-Dog etc.
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Entertainment Robots developed by Sony
AIBO
QRIO
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AIBO-Artificial Intelligence RoBOt-first sold on the internet in 1999
-recognizes voices
-regognizes its charging station
-can be extended by AIBOware
-can be modified by Sony´s „R-Code“ language
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QRIO-Quest for CuRIOsity-first introduced in 2000,successor in 2002
-58 cm tall,weighing 7 kg
-recognizes voices and faces
-japanese word pool of about 60.000 words
-the first and fastest running humanoid robot (Guinness World Record 2005)
-other features: jumping,story telling,stair climbing, singing,dancing etc.
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WowWee-was founded in 1988
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The Tri-Bot-successor of the RoboSapien-high mobility,3-wheeled,can move in 8 directions-has a „pop-top“ head and animated eyebrows-fast talking-movement-sensor-reacts to the environment by giving comments-controlled by a tilt-sensitive remote-control-can also move autonomously-includes a game function&an alarm function
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Edutainment Robots: LEGO Mindstorms
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The History of LEGO Mindstorms-1998: The Robotics Invention System (RIS) -based on the programmable brick RCX -the RCX is programmed by downloading a program from a PC by infrared technology -interaction between two or more RCX bricks is possible
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The History of LEGO Mindstorms-2006: LEGO Mindstorms NXT,the NXT brick -gets input from up tp four sensors
Sensor Ports
NXT Buttons
Loudspeaker
USB-Port
3 Motor Ports
Interactive Servo Motors
Ultrasonic SensorLight Sensor
Sound Sensor
TouchSensor
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How LEGO Mindstorms works1.Design and build your robot
2.Program your robot
3.Communicate with your robot -per USB or -per Bluetooth
4.Test and improve your robot
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For further information Please visit
http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_robothttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aibohttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aibohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qriohttp://mindstorms.lego.com/http://www.wowwee.com/http://www.hasbro.com/tiger/idog/
and enjoy!There´s so much more to discover!
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Thanks for your attention!
Questions?